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May 2021 Release Notes

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Last updated: May 28, 2021Version comment
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5-28-2021

Pooling

Pooling Cash Distribution report (Details mode) in the Operations module did not show correct values in the Balance Before column for some participant items. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-34106

5-28-2021

Distances & Maps

Added 5 new pilotage zone regions in the Great Lakes

Story EN-30512

5-27-2021

Financials

An issue related to invoice status defaulting with CFGDefaultUnactual has been fixed.

Bug EN-37117

5-27-2021

Operations

Sustainability tabs will now function correctly when clicked.

Story EN-37089

5-27-2021

Chartering

Delivery and Redelivery bunker prices are no longer stored as rounded values.

Bug EN-36991

5-27-2021

Operations

The issue where enabling configuration flag CFGDefaultLaytimeCHHMMFormat was not resulting in the auto-selection of HH:MM Format check box in Laytime Calculation form has been fixed.

Bug EN-36979

5-27-2021

Veslink Voyage Reporting

Resolved an issue where the Stowage sub-table within Veslink Cargo Handling forms did not function properly.

Bug EN-36669

5-27-2021

Demurrage & Claims

Fixed an issue where selecting a booking with multiple charterers would result in duplicate Laytime Calculation lines.

Bug EN-36006

k8s-5-26-2021

Ops Hub

Resolved some issues around time zones in Focus

Story EN-36721

k8s-5-26-2021

Trade Hub VIP Only

In the Trade Hub Market Insights, a new tab in the Vessel Pane has been added to view the vessel's historical AIS positions over a defined date range. For ranges that are two weeks or shorter, the hourly positions will be utilized. For any ranges that are greater than two weeks, hourly positions will be used for the latest two week period in the range and daily positions will be used for all other dates. This will be indicated on the position icons on the map where the hourly positions will have a higher opacity than the daily positions.

Hovering over the position in the map will provide additional details on the position such as the position time, type, status, and Lat/Long.

Story EN-36699

5-26-2021

Financials

Previously, there was a error importing a bill with a exchange rate difference. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-37058

5-26-2021

Veslink Voyage Reporting

Approved Cargo Handling Forms that were corrupted are now displaying correctly

Bug EN-36584

5-25-2021

Distances & Maps

New port added: Abigail Joseph FPSO (Nigeria)

Story EN-37121

5-25-2021

Distances & Maps

Routing updated between ports and Brisbane, Glebe Island, Newcastle (Austalia) and Melbourne when minimizing ECA routing around Australia is enabled

Bug EN-37066

5-25-2021

Veslink Voyage Reporting

Voyage instruction forms will now properly account for user locale.

Bug EN-35693

5-25-2021

Operations

When CFGPrioritizeCargoItinInVoyageSync is enabled and cargo handling lines are split, autotu correctly handles the update.

Bug EN-34098

5-24-2021

Scheduling VIP Only

In the Scheduling Workspace, the override laycan menu is no longer accessible from locked estimates. In the Cargo Book workspace, the menu options is also no longer accessible from cargoes on locked estimates.

Story EN-36817

5-24-2021

Platform API

New details have been added to voyage and time charter messages sent via the SEDNA interface.

Story EN-36692

5-24-2021

Chartering

Previously, Market Result In/Out calculations for RELT voyages did not include Other Rev/Exp items associated with the Cargo. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-36630

5-24-2021

Financials

There was a bug in the system where remaining hire balance in TC payment was calculated incorrectly for TC contract fixed in non-base currency.
This bug has been fixed.

Bug EN-36335

5-24-2021

Financials

There was a bug in IMOS that would prevent correctly linking off-hire item on mirrored TC invoice to actual operational off-hire. This bug has been fixed

Bug EN-35489

5-21-2021

Chartering

Fixed an issue with the cargo contract XML interface where omission of freight information (freightRate, freightLumpsum, etc.) when updating a non-base currency contract could result in incorrect modifications to the freight data.

Bug EN-37059

5-21-2021

Trade Hub

Previously, saving the Vessel ID or Matrix in the Vessel Valuation tool did not work properly. This issue is now resolved.

Bug EN-37045

5-21-2021

Analytics

Previously, Counterparty Short Name on the Voyage data form would have trouble filtering against null values in Report Designer. Now, Report Designer can successfully filter against null values in the Counterparty Short Name column.

Bug EN-34744

5-20-2021-r2

Financials

When using Model B Bunker Accounting (CFGAllocateBunkersToVoy set to Y), voyages that were part of TC Out Contracts that were not using Bunkers On Consumption would have incorrect Voyage Period Journals to move remaining bunker inventory to the next voyage. This has been fixed; now all remaining ROBs will be moved to the next voyage at the correct prices. In support of this, a new Bill Code has been added: VBNK / CTXXX, where XXX represents each fuel type. This code will be used for a Counterparty Transfer when a lot of bunkers needs to be moved from one counterparty to another.

Story EN-36758

5-20-2021-r2

Operations

Before, VIP did not warn the user against deleting a berth from the Berth Management form after it had been used in the Port Activities screen. Now it prevents this action and displays a warning message.

Bug EN-36011

5-20-2021

Chartering

Lumpsum broker commission type is now available in both Time Charter contract and TCO Estimates in VIP.

Story EN-36986

5-20-2021

Veslink Voyage Reporting

Added the dropdown "Voyage Cargo" back to Cargo Handling Form UI.

User is now able to approve cargo handling forms where multiple parcels of the same cargo are loaded by selecting one of the options in the Voyage Cargo dropdown.

Bug EN-36599

5-20-2021

Financials

Previously, checks for user's invoice approval/posting rights (based on Financial Control rules) were using amounts in invoice currency vs. base currency - when trying to approve/post invoice from operations invoice programs like Laytime Calculator, Freight invoice and such. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-36298

5-20-2021

Veslink Voyage Reporting

Resolved an issue where submitting Veslink Statement of Facts forms for SPOT/RELT voyages could incorrectly override information manually entered on the voyage leg's A or D activity reports.

Bug EN-36072

5-20-2021

Analytics VIP Only

Fixed a bug in report designer where sometimes column order wouldn't be saved properly.

Bug EN-34549

5-20-2021

P&L & Accruals

Non-invoiced rebills in the Rebills section of the Voyage Pnl grid were not grouped by counterparty. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-28468

5-19-2021

Distances & Maps

New port added: Dagang (Jiangsu), China

Story EN-37020

5-19-2021

Distances & Maps

The Persian Gulf piracy zone is now rendered correctly in Veslink Distances.

Bug EN-36881

5-19-2021

Analytics VIP Only

Adds ability to add Attachment data to Voyage reports.

Story EN-36566

5-19-2021, k8s-5-19-2021

Trade Hub VIP Only

Added a new option to the Market Insights workflow dropdown in the Trade Hub called "Track Vessels". When selected the users can maintain a list of specific vessels that they want to be able to track across the globe, regardless of if they are in different geographical locations. Users will be able to add and remove vessels from their own private list of these Tracked Vessels.

Story EN-36514

5-19-2021

Scheduling VIP Only

Fixed an issue with blank numeric filters in the Cargo Book and Open Positions workspaces.

Bug EN-36201

5-19-2021

Datalake

The datalake prefixMetadata API endpoint argument names have changed to more closely match those of the presignedUrls endpoint, and additional prefix filtering options have been added to be similar to presignedUrls. Using the prefixMetadata endpoint, you are now able to filter prefixes on jobGuid in addition to dateStamp.

Story EN-35650

5-19-2021

Demurrage & Claims

Payment Terms field has been added to the Claim Invoice form.
It can be set now in the same way as in other operations invoice forms, such as Freight Invoice.

Story EN-30095

k8s-5-18-2021

Trade Hub VIP Only

Added three new fields to the Action Cargoes and Market Insights grids in the Trade Hub to show the Ballast Speed, Laden Speed, and Speed Source. The speeds displayed will be the defaults used for ETA and voyage days calculations and will be used to find matching consumption values. The Source will display either IMOS, IHS, or will be Empty if no speed is found for the given vessel.

Story EN-36552

5-18-2021

Chartering

In the past, in the Voyage Estimate P&L, Hold Cleaning failed to honor the currency exchange rate. This has been fixed now.

Bug EN-36678

5-18-2021

Messaging Service

XPath filters in the messaging service can now be a maximum length of 1023 characters.

Story EN-35755

5-18-2021

Distances & Maps

New region Palm Passage (Australia) added

Story EN-35620

5-18-2021

Distances & Maps

Removed duplicate Region LOWDRAFT-MOKPO

Bug EN-35166

5-18-2021

Financials

Fixed an issue where the current P&L snapshot did not update if an off hire line was deleted without saving the form.

Bug EN-34425

5-18-2021

Analytics

Added “Option Start Date” and “Option Redelivery Date” fields to the Time Charter Lifting Options table in the Report Designer

Story EN-29840

k8s-5-17-2021

Trade Hub VIP Only

Previously, the calculation of bunker cost in the Trade Hub Estimator was not working for vessels that do not exist on the IMOS DataBase. Now, the bunker consumption values are correctly being pulled from the nominated Benchmark vessel, and the bunker cost is accurately calculated for all of the vessels.

Bug EN-36604

5-17-2021

Distances & Maps

New port added: Leonis (Italy)

Story EN-36960

5-17-2021

Berth Scheduling VIP Only

In the Berth Scheduling workspace, enable dragging between berths for berth blockages. Additionally, multiple bug fixes around dragging and clicking in the workspace.

Bug EN-36826

5-17-2021

Chartering VIP Only

Fixed a bug where sometimes pasting in remarks fields would not preserve newlines.

Bug EN-35999

5-14-2021

Distances & Maps

Winter seasonal zones have been refined for greater accuracy in distance calculations.

Story EN-36522

5-13-2021

Security & User Mgmt Desktop Only

This fixes an issue in Imos in which an error is incorrectly generated when saving a group.

Bug EN-36951

5-13-2021

Operations

The Bunker Purchases form now contains an "Index Linked" flag to track if the future trade is an index linked procurement.

Story EN-36789

5-13-2021

Data Center Settings

When the configuration flag ("CFGEnforceBankActivationSecurity") is enabled, editing inactivity of remittance information requires the user has appropriate permissions.

Bug EN-34606

5-13-2021

Tasks & Alerts

Expression autocomplete support for _RunOnceObjects is now available in the Tasks and Alerts Rule Editor in VIP.

Bug EN-33400

5-12-2021

Distances & Maps

Routing updated between ports Geraldton and Esperance when minimizing ECA routing around Australia

Bug EN-36878

5-12-2021

Operations

Sustainability tab number will now be displayed correctly based on user locale.

Bug EN-36756

k8s-5-11-2021

Trade Hub

Previously it was not possible to save the value of the Misc Expenses field to a view. The issue is now resolved.

Bug EN-36479

5-11-2021

Chartering

Previously, the TC lease calculations for the TCs with reversed Initial journals would result in a pending calculation for a billing schedule. This has been fixed.

Story EN-36456

5-11-2021

Operations

Added vessel validation to vessel schedule in VIP.

Story EN-36294

5-11-2021

Distances & Maps

Routing between Progreso and Altamira updated

Bug EN-34797

5-10-2021

Distances & Maps

New port added: Haimen (Jiangsu)

Story EN-36892

5-10-2021

Trading

New column Clearinghouse has been added to FFA/Option and Bunker Swap/Option lists in VIP.

Story EN-36846

5-10-2021

Chartering VIP Only

Updated validation warning and error icons.

Story EN-36828

5-10-2021

Chartering

Fixed an issue where FOB cargoes could be saved without itinerary info defined. Fixed an issue where creating a new FOB cargo required the form to be re-loaded to save a second time. Fixed an issue where changing the Reference Vessel on a previously-saved FOB cargo may not properly save the new vessel assignment.

Bug EN-36661

5-10-2021

Financials

Added logic to the automated commission generation functionality to reverse out any generated commissions when the source invoice has been reversed.

When CFGAutoGenerateTCComms is enabled and a TC Hire invoice is reversed that had an auto-generated commission associated, then the commission invoice will automatically be reversed.When CFGAutoGenerateFreightComms is enabled and a Freight invoice is reversed that had an auto-generated commission associated, then the commission invoice will automatically be reversed. Lastly when CFGAutoGenerateDemComms is enabled and a Demurrage invoice is reversed that had an auto-generated commission associated, then the commission invoice will automatically be reversed.

Story EN-36543

5-10-2021

Security & User Mgmt

All new passwords are required to be a minimum of 12 characters, and contain at least one lowercase character, one uppercase character, one digit, and one of the following symbols: ~!@#%&_=;:'<,>-.$^{[(|)]}*+?\

Story EN-36214

5-10-2021

Distances & Maps

Updated routing from port Baoshan to port Majishan

Bug EN-35994

5-10-2021

Distances & Maps

New Range Port added: PG-JAPAN

Story EN-34431

5-10-2021

Chartering

Previously, there was a issue when the user tried to save the exchange rate of a port expense. This issue has been fixed.

Bug EN-27299

5-10-2021

Chartering

When BAF is defined by an Unpriced Element and ‘Multiply by Freight Rate’ checkbox is selected for a Cargo with a Lumpsum Freight Rate Type, BAF rate will be applied to the Lumpsum for the Bunker Surcharge calculation.

Story EN-23895

5-7-2021

Analytics VIP Only

Changes default search popup (which opens with ctrl + comma) select action to open in new tab. Some modifier combinations now work as well. Alt + select now replaces current tab. Ctrl + select now opens in new tab without loosing focus from current tab. Shift + select now opens in new window.

Story EN-36864

5-7-2021

Onboard

Fixed an unexpected error on the initial setup page of the Veslink Onboard vessel client.

Bug EN-36859

5-7-2021

Distances & Maps

Port Legaspi updated to have UN Code = PHLIC

Story EN-33922

5-6-2021-r2

Financials

Previously, a regression caused document numbers to not generate when invoices were posted. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-36854

5-6-2021-r2

Analytics

Added "Block", "Hide", "No Tolls", "Ballast Only", and "Laden Only" as columns to the Vessel Route table in Report Designer.

Story EN-36154

5-6-2021-r2

Analytics

Added "Scrubber Type" to Voyage and Estimate tables in Report Designer.

Story EN-32825

5-6-2021

Distances & Maps

All ports with Country = Sudan have been updated to TimeZone "GMT +2"

Story EN-36839

5-6-2021

Scheduling

Following consecutive estimates will now be deleted following a vessel change. A warning will appear to alert users this will occur.

Story EN-36620

5-6-2021

Messaging Service

Fixed an issue where exchange rate could not be set using the cargo contract XML interface.

Bug EN-36373

5-6-2021

Financials VIP Only

Certain rowsets insert new rows on top in VIP, consistent with the behavior in Imos.

Bug EN-35835

5-6-2021

Onboard

Resolved an issue where attachments could go missing after syncing when using the onboard vessel client.

Bug EN-35364

5-5-2021

Distances & Maps

3 new piracy zones added:
PIRACY-JWLA-027-CABO-DELGADO
PIRACY-JWLA-027-INDIAN-OCEAN
PIRACY-JWLA-027-PERSIAN-GULF

Story EN-36734

5-5-2021

Distances & Maps

Port "Yucatan Channel" updated to be a waypoint

Story EN-36676

5-5-2021

Operations

Earlier, to compute the metrics in the Sustainability Panel, VIP would use only the internal data of the voyage itinerary itself (distance data and fuel consumption data). Now, VIP incorporates data from external sources, as specified through the "Emission Data" UI in the Sustainability Panel.

Story EN-36046

5-4-2021

Analytics

The port name will now be displayed for PEXP estimated port expenses in report designer.

Bug EN-36703

5-4-2021

Analytics

Previously, Profit Share value in saved Voyage Pnl snapshots did not reflect Owner's invoiced profit share (when CFGOwnerProfitShareonVoyagePnL is on). This has been fixed.

Bug EN-36611

5-4-2021

Operations

Two improvements were made to the Duplicate Off Hire option in the Delays form. Duplicated off hires default to Show for TCI/TCO Stmt. Duplicates/Reversals made from invoiced off hires no longer have to be refreshed to be edited.

Story EN-36560

5-4-2021

Chartering

Create Child COAs form now supports the defaulting of Load and Discharge ports from header values.

Story EN-36377

5-4-2021

Chartering

COA Contract Layering now supports reporting of Parent ID and Contract Level from the COA list. Child COA contracts support a hyperlink to Parent Contracts. Parent COA contracts support a context menu to open and view linked Child Contracts.

Story EN-36350

5-4-2021

Berth Scheduling

Berth Scheduling now allows you to configure what data appears on the bars within the Gantt Chart. The side panel contains two new settings “Gantt Chart Text Display 1” and “Gantt Chart Text Display 2”, which controls what is displayed on the top level and middle bars in the schedule.

Story EN-36051

5-4-2021

Financials

Previously, Reference field in the Transaction Summary (and other Financials lists and reports in VIP) did not display correct value for Equipment contract related invoices. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-35726

5-4-2021

Financials

Previously, when a PDA came in from DA Desk, the Document Number gets applied before the PDA is Posted, this has been fixed.

Bug EN-35144

5-3-2021

Onboard

Submitting forms in Onboard will now work with company codes with spaces.

Bug EN-36747

5-3-2021

Chartering

Added a tooltip to the cells in the COA/CVC Analysis tool within the Voyage Estimator. This tooltip will include a description of the calculation that is being performed, details on the calculation and the full precision for the number that is being displayed in the cell for each column in the output.

Story EN-36476

5-3-2021

Distances & Maps

Port "Bahodopi Anchorage, Pantoloan Port" renamed "Bahodopi" and UN Code "IDPTL" updated to "IDBAH"

Story EN-35623

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